these 34 are known to be active with ping less than 5 seconds as of today, sorted by lowest latency to east coast US:
connected to wss://us-east-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org with latency 1.17
['wss://us-east-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://this.uptick.rocks/', 'wss://dexnode.net/ws', 'wss://eu.nodes.bitshares.ws', 'wss://eu.nodes.bitshares.works', 'wss://dex.rnglab.org', 'wss://node.market.rudex.org', 'wss://bitshares.crypto.fans/ws', 'wss://eu-west-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://kc-us-dex.xeldal.com/ws', 'wss://eu-central-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://us-west-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://bitshares.openledger.info/ws', 'wss://bts.proxyhosts.info/wss', 'wss://api-ru.bts.blckchnd.com', 'wss://api.bts.blckchnd.com', 'wss://us.nodes.bitshares.works', 'wss://eu.openledger.info/ws', 'wss://b.mrx.im/ws', 'wss://slovenia.bitshares.apasia.tech/ws', 'wss://node.bitshares.eu', 'wss://ap-northeast-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://sa-east-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://us.nodes.bitshares.ws', 'wss://la.dexnode.net/ws', 'wss://openledger.hk/ws', 'wss://ap-northeast-2.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://ap-southeast-1.bts.crypto-bridge.org', 'wss://sg.nodes.bitshares.works', 'wss://bitshares-api.wancloud.io/ws', 'wss://ws.winex.pro', 'wss://ws.gdex.top', 'wss://sg.nodes.bitshares.ws', 'wss://bit.btsabc.org/ws']